Journal
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 213-234Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2021.1922277
Keywords
path creation; regional development; interpath relationship; new industries; Namibia
Funding
- German Research Foundation (DFG) through the collaborative research center Future Rural Africa [TRR228/1]
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The emergence of new regional paths has significant impacts on local economies, bringing both new opportunities and potential internal inequalities. By studying relationships between different paths, we can better understand how the formation of new paths affects existing industries.
The emergence of new regional paths is a key topic in economic geography. While new paths are largely associated with positive regional economic outcomes, little is known about how the formation of a new industry affects other parts of the regional economy. By linking recent conceptual advancements on early path formation and interpath relationships, this article develops a framework for studying how path creation, as a result of diverse resource formation processes, can cause reformation processes of existing industries. The value of the framework is illustrated in a case study on the tourism path formation process in the Zambezi region (Namibia) and its impacts on the agricultural sector. The findings reveal how the path formation has caused new forms of intraregional inequalities as well as novel opportunities for the existing agricultural sector depending on the interpath relationship. Beyond these case study-specific findings, the results emphasize the importance of a broader perspective that goes beyond a single new path and includes nonparticipating regional actors in the analysis. Only in this way can we understand how new path creation translates into regional economic development.
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